The OMB needs to provide additional guidance to help people determine the amount of jobs created and preserved.

If that goes well, we hope to be able to do the same kind of thing in Medicaid.

We have a lot of contractors hungry for work and anxious to bid.

What do we need to be doing here in the legislative side, in this hearing?

As much help as there is for States to offset the draconian cuts, that States are still going to be in a big hole for the next 3 years.

We have been going after and trying to recover money from Medicare, a lot of it fraud.

there is nothing that is more effective, maybe, than cuffing somebody that has been behaving, not just badly, but criminally.

I think it is close to four feet, maybe four to five feet.

Some would say there still are.

That was pretty good, Senator Merkley. Very good.

I think in my State, the highest point of land in my State is a bridge.

about 125,000 years ago, when we had warming more or less at the same level that we are heading toward today, but that was for very different reasons, we had sea level rise of several meters.

over the last 650,000 years, we have had remarkable stability in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere.

Mr. President, across the country Americans are struggling with a very bad economy. Every day we hear more heartbreaking stories about foreclosures and lost jobs. The situation is serious. It appears to be getting worse. It was in the…

Didn't you do this in the earlier part of this decade as we were coming out of a recession, 6, 7, or 8 years ago?

If you go from 6 to 5 days, some of your customers, including your competitors, might be less inclined to use you as a partner for going that last mile.

Let me just say, we think around here about echo effect.

There are about half a million retirees right now?

How widely known are those options, Mr. Potter? Have you done any surveying on that to find out just how many people actually realize what their options are?

The Postal Service wants that as well. We will continue to talk in those areas.

I think what we just heard, it could cycle on and off. Part of the year, busier times.

I certainly want to encourage you, to the extent that you can, to be transparent, more transparent and accountable.

So as Congress would consider policy decisions such as a reduction in service from 6 to 5 days, you could go back to your constituents and explain to them how this is all going to work.

The 78 or 80 percent of costs that are represented by personnel, I am not going to ask how that compares with other service industries, but let me just ask: Is that a stable number?

I think there is some agreement, at least among Senator Collins, Senator Lieberman, and myself, that if we are not comfortable going with 8 years, we may be comfortable going with 2 years.